Commas are used around titles and degrees within the body of a sentence:
- Charles Peabody, MD, PhD, was the first to arrive.
- Judith Foster, Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee, made the opening statement.
A comma is placed between a surname and a given name or initials if the surname is written first:
- Mammouri, Muhammad
- Grove, F. P.
Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese names are an exception. They are written with the family name first and no comma:
- Deng Xiaoping
- Park So-dam
- Nguyen Tranh
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